Reading Matters
If your child struggles to recognise words, remember letter sounds, read words that he has been exposed to, READING MATTERS uses a multi-sensory, systematic and structured program based on Orton Gillingham approach to teach him decoding strategies.
For K1/K2 children, we offer The Reading Nest, a reading program aimed at building the foundational skills for successful reading and spelling.
Comprehension Matters
If your child struggles to retell a story or the main idea of a text he has read or simply does not understand what he reads, COMPREHENSION MATTERS teaches him strategies to understand meaning at the sentence, paragraph and text level.
Taking the Struggle out of Reading & Writing
Different Strokes provides intervention and remediation to students (5-16 year-olds) who struggle with reading, comprehension, spelling and writing due to dyslexia, ADHD, ASD, SLI or other reasons.
We also work with students who do not have a diagnosis but require a different kind of instruction that works for them.
Our founder, Wan Yen graduated from the National University of Singapore (Psychology Major) and was an Associate Member of the Academy of Orton- Gillingham Practitioners and Educators, NY. She has more than a decade of experience in providing reading and writing intervention.
She has given talks to volunteers at Chen Su Lan Methodist Children's Home on reading comprehension and spearheaded a community outreach program to provide reading intervention to children from disadvantaged families.
Our Programmes
Spelling Matters
If your child struggles to spell correctly despite memorising and learning spelling multiple times and makes consistent errors in his writing, SPELLING MATTERS will teach him letter-sound connections, spelling rules, morphology using a multi-sensory approach so that spelling makes sense and is no longer learned by rote.
Writing Matters
If your child struggles to write a story or he writes in a way that lacks organisation, description and elaboration with uninteresting word choices, WRITING MATTERS will teach him to write using mentor texts from good writers to show how emotions, strong words, vivid descriptions are used in stories.
This exposure is especially helpful if your child does not read widely and hence is limited in vocabulary and understanding of how language is used in narrative writing.
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